Hello Chris, I know a big gotcha: Over a samba connection, user permissions and ownerships are not well maintained or preserved, because a Windows file system has different file/ownership properties than a unix/linux file system.
I've had the same rsync problems over a samba connections. Rsync complains that it can't set certain permissions on the remote files. Maybe you can create a block of data remote (with dd or so), make a file system inside it and mount that one with some nifty mount command. I'm not really experienced in that, maybe another helpful person is willing to give an example of commands for it? Keep in mind that the network might slow down the performance considerably and that samba connections are not always reliable. The remote file system might become unavailable and/or break things. Joost > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Chris Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: zondag 4 januari 2004 23:59 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: [gentoo-user] smbfs and portage > > > I'm trying to conserve diskspace on my laptop by pushing > /usr/portage and /var/tmp/portage to my wife's computer (running > Windows2000, with gobs of empty diskspace, albeit formated as NTFS and > FAT), mounted via samba. > The directories are mounted without any problems and the portage > directory was moved over without any issue. Problems: 'emerge sync' runs > but eventually dies with a samba input/output error. Also, any attempt > to emerge an app with the remote /var/tmp/portage mounted ends with a > filesystem/diskspace error; but using a local /var/tmp/portage, 'emerge > XYZ' works just fine. > Are there any gotcha's I need to know about? I am running a 2.6 > kernel with NTFS read/write support and Samba support built in; Samba > 3.0.0 is installed. Other directories on the samba mounted drive can be > written and read without problem. > > thanks, > -c > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
